schuss
IPA: ʃˈʌs
noun
- (skiing) A straight run downhill.
verb
- To ski a schuss.
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Examples of "schuss" in Sentences
- Feet should schuss nicely through the holiday season...
- They'll schuss the popular Jackson Hole and Grand Targhee slopes -- largely in response to reports of illegal drug activity.
- Whether harmless dribbles or million-ton masses more than a mile wide, avalanches tend to schuss down the same runs year after year.
- Next comes an easy 'schuss' over rolls to Damen Start, and there a sharp left over bumps to a steep wood trail like the upper part of
- 'schuss' denotes a run straight downhill at top speed, 'steilhang' a steep slope, and 'knick' a sudden transformation from a steep slope to the level;
- For travelers determined to schuss on their own K2s or Rossignols, Southwest is an attractive options — so far it isn't charging for passengers 'first piece of checked baggage.
- Some carefully juxtaposed moments: elderly fiddlers playing for money in front of pricey boutiques; begrimed miners gouging for silver ore as tonily garbed skiers schuss the pristine slopes.
- To savvy snowboarders, Baikalsk has long been the beautiful resort where visitors are so few you can feel as though you own the mountain, at least temporarily: for about 5,000 rubles ($175), you can have exclusive use of one of the six long runs for the day and never see another soul as you schuss through forests.
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